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Three items. Item 1 - Book with red spine and green/blue cover titled ‘E. & V. Ltd., Press Cuttings, No. 1’. The book was purchased on 23 Jan 1911 from Waterlow & Sons. On the second page there is handwritten at the top ‘Dionic 8-34, Recorder 40, Megger 58-62-64-122. On the next page are two loose press cuttings , items 2 and 3. The first is from ‘Electricity’ dated 15th November 1912 and titled ‘The “Dionic” Water Tester’. The second is from ‘Electrical Times’ dated 21st November 1912 and is a similar article. There is an A to Z index which is not used, however, under Y there is a loose press cutting from ‘Electrician’ dated 2 June 1922 titled ‘Pioneers’ and advertising Evershed Instruments. The index is followed by 386 pages numbered at the top corner. The first press cutting is from ‘Electrical Engineering’ dated 17 Nov 1910 titled ‘Electrical Testing of Water’ and the last cutting is on page 144 from ‘Fuel Economy Review’ dated August 1922 and titled ‘Power for Small Units. 1. – Oil Engine Sets’ gives the history of how Evershed & Vignoles powered their expanding plant at Acton Lane. Other items of interest are:- Page 34 - Journal of 'The Royal Sanitary Institute' issued October, 1912 with an introduction by Sir Shirley F. Murphy, F.R.C.S. titled 'Some points in the decline of the Birth and Death Rates'. One of the papers is by Col. C.H.Melville titled 'The Physiological Effects of Exercise'. Page 54- Evershed & Vignoles lost a court case over the use by another company of the name ‘Omega’ for one of their electrical instruments. The article is from ‘The Electrician’ dated 17 October 1913. Page 56 – A humorous article from ‘Electrical Industries’ covering each day in December, 1913 and titled ‘Electrical Zadkiel’. The item for Christmas Day presents mentions Mr. E. Vignoles being given an Omega testing set. Pages 98,100,104,112,114,126 – A letter from Sydney Evershed on the ‘Union Electric Company Ltd.’ Dated 14 September 1914. This is in response to a previous letter by J. Van Eck of the Union Electric Company re. the German make up of the company now that war has been declared.. Page 118 – A humorous article from ‘Electrical Industries’ covering each day in November, 1914 and titled ‘Electrical Zadkiel’. The item for 7th November mentions ‘the Kaiser awards to Mr Sydney Evershed the first order of the Iron Cross for his heroic treatment of Mr Justus Eck.